Concentrated Portfolios versus Long/short strategies

US manager T Rowe Price will aggressively target the Australian retail space this year via platforms and has hired Louise Bradshaw as assistant vice president. Bradshaw will join group executive, Ed Brooks, from mid this year and will assist in the group’s retail push. T Rowe Price is not yet on any retail platforms.

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FirstChoice makes quant offering with Acadian

The joint venture between Colonial First State and US quant manager Acadian Asset Management will launch its first products into the retail market – an Australian long-short and an Australian long-only fund – on Colonial’s FirstChoice platform in early March.

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